Determined to boost food security in the country and create jobs, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) said it has improved the capacity of over 100 rice farmers in Niger State in the area of irrigation farming. The NALDA state coordinator, Mr. Aminu Umaru, during a tour of the 417 hectares of land acquired […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Usman Alkali Baba as Nigeria’s Acting Inspector General of Police (AIGP). The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi announced this while briefing state house correspondents on the security situation in the country. According to the Minister, Usman Baba’s appointment was made by the […]Read More
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, yesterday gave a two month ultimatum to bandits to lay down their arms and embrace peace initiated by his government or face the full weight of the military and other security agencies The governor, who gave the ultimatum after he received Service Chiefs at Government House Gusau, lamented that […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a comprehensive overhaul of the African Union (AU) for it to be more functional in meeting set targets and relevance, warning that failure to do so will result in the organisation becoming stale. Buhari, in a speech during the day two of the 34th Annual Summit of the African […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari and Moroccan leader, King Mohammed VI, at the weekend, discussed joint efforts towards realising strategic development projects such as the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline and a fertilizer production plant. Both leaders, who spoke on telephone, agreed on positive and dynamic bilateral relations in all fields between the two countries since Mohammed’s visit […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan; All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday paid tribute to a veteran journalist, politician and a former Minister of Information and Culture, Prince Tony […]Read More
BARRING the unforeseen, President Muhammadu Buhari will today sign the N13.588 trillion 2021 Appropriation Bill into law. This is to enable the budget implementation to kick off in January next year. Though the 2020 budget was passed and signed into law on time, the Coronavirus pandemic scuttled its scheduled implementation in line with the January […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a congratulatory message to the new Emir of Zazzau, Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, asked the monarch to lead his people fairly. The president’s message was delivered by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. The message stated, “While you bask in the glory of the moment, I want you […]Read More
The Nigerian government is targeting about N1 trillion annually from stamp duty as it predicts collection to soon become second only to oil revenue. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, disclosed this on Tuesday at the official inauguration of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Audit and Recovery of Back Years Stamp […]Read More
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Sunday met with President Muhammadu Buhari and discussed the next phase of the reopening of sectors in the country. The PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, said one of the recommendations submitted to Buhari was that Nigeria would enter the second phase of the battle against the pandemic. Mustapha, while […]Read More
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